“Mother Married de Gonzaga requested me to write down all the graces and the mercies that God has bestowed in me. I must try to express what is in my heart, my sense of gratitude towards God and towards Mother Marie, who for me was God’s visible representative. I do not find it difficult to realize that whenever she said anything, it was God speaking through her. As you know, I have always wished that I could be a saint. But ,whenever I compared myself to the Saints there was always this unfortunate difference –they were like great mountains, hiding their heads in the clouds, and I was only an insignificant grain of sand, trodden down by all who passed by. However, I was not going to be discouraged; I said to myself; ‘God would not inspire us with ambitions that cannot be realized. Obviously there is nothing great to be made of me, so it must be possible for me to aspire to sanctity in spite of my insignificance. I have got to take myself just as I am, with all my imperfections; but somehow I shall have to find out a little way, all of my own, which will be a direct short cut to heaven. After all (I said to myself) we live in an age of inventions. Nowadays, people do not even bother to climb the stairs-rich people, anyhow; they find a lift more convenient. Can’t I find a lift which will take me up to Jesus, since I am not big enough to climb the steep stair way of perfection?"
"So, I looked in the Bible for some hint about the lift I wanted, and I came across the passage where Eternal Wisdom says: 'Is anyone simple as a child? Then let him come to me.' To that Wisdom I went; it seemed as if I was on the right track; what did God undertake to do for the child like soul who responded to his invitation? I read on, and this is what I found: 'I will console you like a mother caressing her son; you shall be like children carried at the breast, fondled on a mother’s lap.'"
"Never were words so touching: never was such music to rejoice the heart- I could, after all, be lifted up to heaven, in the arms of Jesus! And if that was to happen, there was no need for me to grow bigger; on the contrary, I must be as small as ever, smaller than ever."
"The Almighty God has done great things in me, and the greatest of all is to make me conscious of my own littleness, my own incapacity.”
Taken from The Story of a Soul by St. Therese.
"So, I looked in the Bible for some hint about the lift I wanted, and I came across the passage where Eternal Wisdom says: 'Is anyone simple as a child? Then let him come to me.' To that Wisdom I went; it seemed as if I was on the right track; what did God undertake to do for the child like soul who responded to his invitation? I read on, and this is what I found: 'I will console you like a mother caressing her son; you shall be like children carried at the breast, fondled on a mother’s lap.'"
"Never were words so touching: never was such music to rejoice the heart- I could, after all, be lifted up to heaven, in the arms of Jesus! And if that was to happen, there was no need for me to grow bigger; on the contrary, I must be as small as ever, smaller than ever."
"The Almighty God has done great things in me, and the greatest of all is to make me conscious of my own littleness, my own incapacity.”
Taken from The Story of a Soul by St. Therese.
